Sunday, August 14, 2005

Oxford's New English Dictionary, 2006?

I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a private party Friday night: Free food, free beer, karaoke, and 200 people that all work in the same place. I knew very few people there, and less about what they were talking about (health insurance), but it was soon enough that the free beer mentioned above loosened everyone up so that no one cared anyway.

A few hours into the evening, I excused myself to the Ladies', only to open the door and find a line of women...singing and dancing in sychronicity. Whoa! Have I just walked straight into a musical? There's Rizzo and Sandra Dee!

A very happy invitation was extended: "We're Pee-Dancing!!! Come on in!!"

What could one do, but sashay herself to the end of the Pee-dance line?

I was there that evening and can tell you the men's room was not nearly as entertaining. The urinal I frequented had a list of fun facts posted at eye level, the last one being "You forget 80% of everything you read."

The fellow next to me, a regular at this bar, told me he spends so much time in here he could recite those. He did pretty well, all things considered. I don't know if it was the alcohol or some innate inability but when I told him he had just disproved the last item on the list, he failed to grasp the irony.